Seth Godin Quotes
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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
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The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
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All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
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Choose your customers, choose your future.
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You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
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People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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You can't lose. Go, go, go!
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Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
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There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.
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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.